Shrek
June 25–July 2 An Ogre-Sized Adventure!
Performance time 8:15 p.m. nightly
The lovable fairy-tale misfits from the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation sensation storm The Muny after 13 years! In a hilarious adventure that’s perfect for the whole family, a grumpy ogre named Shrek sets off with a wisecracking donkey to rescue a feisty princess who doesn’t exactly need saving. Add a pint-sized villain, a cookie with an attitude and a kingdom of storybook outcasts, and you’ve got a mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there’s one on hand. Irreverently funny and surprisingly sweet, Shrek The Musical proves that beauty is truly in the eye of the ogre.
Music by Jeanine Tesori • Book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire • Based on the DreamWorks Animation motion picture and the book by William Steig
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John Tartaglia
Director
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Patrick O’Neill
Choreographer
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Ben Whiteley
Music Director/Conductor
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Adam Koch
Scenic Designer
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Robin L. McGee
Costume Designer
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Jason Lyons
Lighting Designer
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Joshua Hummel
Sound Designer
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Kylee Loera
Video Designer
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To be announced
Wig Designer
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To be announced
Production Stage Manager
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The Telsey Office, Lindsay Levine, CSA
Casting
Creative Team
JOHN TARTAGLIA
Director
returns to The Muny, where he has directed Disney’s Frozen, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast; Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins; Matilda; Annie; The Wizard of Oz; Tarzan and Shrek. Muny (actor): Disney’s Frozen (Oaken), Forum (Hysterium, St. Louis Theater Circle Award), Seussical (The Cat in the Hat), Disney’s Aladdin (Genie). Other directing: Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live and Fraggle Rock: A Space-y Adventure (writer/director/choreographer); John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean (writer/director); Stephen Schwartz’s The Secret Silk (writer/director); Elf The Musical and Mamma Mia! (Bucks County Playhouse); Disney’s Frozen and Beauty and the Beast (Maltz Jupiter Theatre). Broadway (actor): Avenue Q (Tony nomination), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Shrek. TV: The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Emmy Award), Johnny and the Sprites, Sesame Street, Jim Henson’s Word Party, Julie’s Greenroom, Jim Henson’s Splash and Bubbles. John hosts Sunday Funday on SiriusXM On Broadway.
PATRICK O’NEILL
Choreographer
has five Muny productions and three St. Louis Theater Circle nominations to his credit. He was last represented on Broadway as the associate choreographer for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical School of Rock, which he also staged in Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul. Upcoming in London: On the Edge. Upcoming in New York: Radio 930, The Violin. Other favorites: On a Clear Day …, starring Harry Connick Jr. (Broadway); Ever After (Alliance Theatre); Barry Manilow’s Harmony (Ahmanson Theatre, Alliance Theatre); The Nutty Professor (directed by Jerry Lewis). He is the co-creator of The Time Step Symposium, a program that connects and supports choreographers and musicians to ensure the future of dance music on Broadway.
BEN WHITELEY
Music Director/Conductor
Muny: Evita; Anything Goes; The Sound of Music; Singing in the Rain; A Chorus Line; 42nd Street; My Fair Lady; The Addams Family; Spamalot; Pirates!; Beauty and the Beast; Kiss Me, Kate; Oklahoma!; The Music Man; Meet Me in St. Louis; South Pacific. St. Louis Symphony: A Little Sondheim Music and Muny at 100. Music director for 1776 at NY City Center Encores! Broadway/first national tours: Hello, Dolly!; A Christmas Story; The Addams Family; Spamalot; The Full Monty; Cats; Grand Hotel; Falsettos; Big. Carnegie Hall: Sail Away with Elaine Stritch. Madison Square Garden: A Christmas Story. Sacramento Music Circus: Oklahoma!, Something Rotten! Choral direction/preparation: Carousel (NY Philharmonic/PBS), 33 City Center Encores! productions. Other: Paper Mill Playhouse, 5th Avenue Theatre, University of Michigan, Three Irish Tenors. Recordings: Allegro, Boardwalk Empire.
Shrek The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. mtishows.com